A couple of weeks ago I noted that congressional Democrats were working on a plan to effectively kill health savings accounts. The WSJ reports that the plot continues apace:
This week, the House passed legislation that included a provision to require every HSA transaction be reviewed and verified as a legitimate medical expense … it adds a layer […]
The bête noire of the nanny state liberal is the autonomous citizen making her own decisions without interference from the government. Thus, congressional Democrats intend to throttle consumer-driven health care in the cradle. This policy brief from the RSC explains how they plan to do it:
Democrats are considering requiring “substantiation” of all HSA transactions from an independent third party […]
Yesterday, two friends with finely-tuned BS detectors e-mailed me the link to Jacob Hacker’s recent paean to government-run health care. I’m glad they did, for if ever an article needed debunking this is it. I realized that when I saw that Hacker begins the piece with a red herring:
‘Socialized medicine’ is the bogeyman that just won’t die … The epithet has been hurled […]
Panda Bear, MD must have incredibly strong metacarpals. His posts make my hands hurt just reading them. And, unlike most long blog posts, his effusions usually remain coherent from beginning to end. Here’s his take on what government can do to improve health care:
It would be a simpler, cheaper, and, as our country is terrifically overdoctored and overmedicated, probably […]
It would appear that a Kentucky dickhead congressman wants to outlaw anonymous posting:
Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
Nope. He’s not kidding:
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
If our masters inside the Beltway […]
Government-run health care is a bad idea for many reasons, not the least of which is that government is just plain dumb. A useful case in point is Daylight Saving Time. Twice a year, at a signal from our masters in Washington, we all dutifully reset our clocks. Why? Because, in its wisdom, the government […]
Free market reform advocates object to single-payer health care for a variety of reasons, including our belief that such a system would involve government micromanagement of hospitals and doctors. As if to prove our point, Medicare is about to send out an army of auditors whose primary mission is to put the clinical and billing decisions of providers under the microscope:
‘What […]
Most single-payer advocates believe that our health care system would operate more efficiently if it were “managed” by our masters inside the Beltway. David Strom of the Minnesota Free Market Institute uses the following hypothetical scenario to show why they are wrong:
An economist examines consumers’ automobile purchases and comes to the conclusion that the market is completely out […]
The state of California has decided to slash Medicaid payments to physicians by more than $50 million. AMNews reports that Dr. Richard Frankenstein, President of the California Medical Association (CMA), thinks the state has created a monster:
Cutting funding for health services, particularly when it costs California valuable federal matching funds, is neither humane nor financially […]
Single-payer advocates promote the fiction that people who disagree with them are “against reform.” In reality, however, the most ferocious defenders of the status quo are those who favor government-run health care. The Florida Times-Union reports on a typical campaign to undermine market-oriented reform:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush led the most ambitious and significant reform to Medicaid in the country. Since he […]